“Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”
— Jonathan Swift
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Nothing is so great an example of
“Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.”
— Jonathan Swift
Author: Jonathan Swift
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Men are happy to be laughed at
“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”
— Jonathan Swift
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Where there are large powers with little
“Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.”
— Jonathan Swift
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Invention is the talent of youth, as
“Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.”
— Jonathan Swift
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It is impossible that anything so natural,
“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.”
— Jonathan Swift
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Interest is the spur of the people,
“Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.”
— Jonathan Swift
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Although men are accused of not knowing
“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.”
— Jonathan Swift
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May you live all the days of
“May you live all the days of your life.”
— Jonathan Swift
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I never saw, heard, nor read, that
“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”
— Jonathan Swift
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Under this window in stormy weather I
“Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.”
— Jonathan Swift
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